(JANSENIUS, C. PSEUD.:) ALEXANDER PATRICIUS ARMACANUS.

Mars Gallicus, seu De Justitia armorum et foederum regis Galliae, libri duo. Edition novissima.

      No place, 1639. 442, (10) pp. 16mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands (a little worn). Cf.: Willaert, Bibliotheca Janseniana Belgica, 2011; Bourgeois & Andre 8466. The first edition appeared 1635. - Contemporary ownership's entry on title. A violent attack on French ambitions generally, and on Richelieu's indifference to international Catholic interests in particular.The author is Cornelis Jansen, the Flemish bishop around whose theological writings and doctrines the movement of Jansenism developped in the seventeenth century. The movement was confined principally to France, where it had an important and many sided influence on social and political life in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.